Non Fat Diet

Nonfat diets: Getting up your body's defences and playing with your health


The dangers of nonfat diets are very grave. Please read this article to find out why nonfat dieting locks your body and can create severe health risks.



Dieting without any fat - the life-threatening misconception that you must know about


Non-fat diets can actually be very dangerousThe fatal misconception of dieting without ANY intake of fat in any form or shape will make weight loss an uphill battle endangering your health.

When you try to lose weight by opting to go without any fat intake, the diet you've started won't make you feel good.

Fats — oils — are an essential part of our nutrition and the body needs some fat every day to manage its vital functions.

Body fat is basically just stored energy, lacking any other nutrients. But the body needs SOME oil every day to run its organs... and this oil has to be in a form that does contain nutrients.

If you leave out all fat from your diet, the body is not going to GET those nutrients it needs.

As a result, the body is deprived of what it needs... and this in a time when everything else in its diet is also suddenly and drastically reduced.

The human body is a remarkably self-governing and self-healing entity. It has its own blueprint on how to maintain its organs, muscles, joints and balance.

But it depends on YOU giving it the needed building materials.


Choosing an oil-including diet which won't close down your body's mechanisms

Your body NEEDS some oil every day - but choose the best kind for yourself!If you choose a diet which deprives your body of its essential building materials, the end result will not be a healthy loss of weight.

You'll lose weight all right but too much of that weight loss will be muscle tissue, not fat.

Look at it this way:

Your body regulates its functions based on the situation which it experiences.

For instance, if it's hot, you sweat. That's your body getting rid of excess heat.

Notice how you cannot just DECIDE to perspire?

Sweating is just one of many functions which you don't control knowingly but which your body simply performs automatically, based on its own "decisions" about what it needs.

The heart beats, the lungs inhale and exhale, blood circulation works without a conscious decision.

Your body automatically regulates its own functions.

Does it just decide to do whatever, whenever, out of some whim?

No. It REACTS to things.

The temperature of the body increases and the body reacts accordingly.

It could be a fever or it could be a hot day... but the body gets hotter and it starts to work to cool itself down to its optimum temperature.

Metabolism is the activity of changing our nutritional intake into substances which the body can use for maintaining its functions.

Metabolism also includes changing any excess useable nutrition (such as fats, sugars, carbohydrates) into storable form (fat tissue in the main) and getting rid of waste products.

Metabolism is a very broad and extensive activity that occurs constantly in our bodies.

It is the most significant of our long-term bodily functions.

In other words, with time, any problems in metabolism will bring a lot of OTHER problems, symptoms and conditions.

Fat metabolism is part of the whole metabolism cycle of the body.

Fat metabolism is simply the changing of energy into fat tissue — when our food intake is in excess of the energy which the body uses at that moment — and then changing the fat back into energy when we take in LESS than the amount of energy used at that time.

However, the body also has safeguarding mechanisms. The body REGULATES its rate of metabolism by what it experiences.

Sweating is a part of metabolism. The body perspires only when it's hot. But when it's COLD, you won't sweat because your body CONSERVES its heat, right?

Well, everyone knows that, of course.

But did you know that the same principle of "conservation" works with fat metabolism — especially when body fat should be converted back into energy when you use more energy than you take in?


If your diet has NO fat at all, the body resists giving up its body fat tooth and nail!

See, the body "thinks" that since all fat (oil) is so scarce — none of it coming into the body for weeks — then fat must be CONSERVED AT ALL COSTS.

Your body's singular goal is to keep itself alive for as long as possible. So, if you could read the "orders" imprinted in its blueprint of "keeping itself alive," the reasoning would be something like this:

"All right, now my nutritional sensors tell me that there's been absolutely NO fat coming in for a couple of weeks.

"This indicates that this is a permanent change in my nutrition. As I need fat to stay alive, this is a red-alert emergency — a major threat to my survival.

"Solution for remaining alive for as long as possible: Body fat must be conserved and all systems must be programmed to RESIST the changing of body fat into energy.

"Engage all systems to conserve energy (make the owner of the body feel drowsy and listless so he/she won't use up much energy, convert muscle tissue into energy, deprive organs of fats, etc.) — RED ALERT, RED ALERT, fat metabolism closing down..."



You cut all fat intake in order to lose body fat... and the body responds to it by engaging all its systems to RESIST losing body fat!

Here's the good word: TAKE IN SOME OIL DAILY.

If you want to HARNESS your body's fat metabolism to work WITH you in achieving the goal of losing body fat, take in a little bit of cold-pressed oil every day.

It doesn't need to be much (and it can't be much for obvious reasons) and it should be good oil with all the needed nutrients.

Otherwise, you will slow down the conversion of body fat into energy.

And that's not even the worst of no-fat diets...




Life-threatening possibilities

No fat diets have been known to cause grave deprivations in the body. Your pancreas, for instance, needs some oil every day. Other organs need it too.

There's more about this in our special publications on weight loss and dieting. For now, let's just say that you had better consult a nutritional specialist before even thinking about a diet totally void of fat.

It can be very dangerous.

So do include enough good oils in your daily diet.

That way, you'll lose body fat without resistance and also avoid any possibility of facing the life-threatening conditions which may ensue a longer period of totally no-fat dieting.

Water and Weight

Water and Weight - the simple insider secret for getting your body to do much of the work in losing weight


The intake of water regulates weight loss in a much greater way than what is commonly known.

In dieting, water acts as a kind of "lubricant" for the body's metabolic functions. Water makes the body work the way it should and a sufficient intake of water will help you lose weight faster and feel better while dieting.

As a rule, we drink far too little water for a healthy diet.

And for losing weight successfully, a sufficient water intake is absolutely essential.

Without enough water, you cannot feel GOOD while dieting... and your body cannot do its job anywhere near as effectively as it should.

Adequate intake of water is the missing ingredient in dieting.








The intake of water regulates weight loss in a much greater way than what is commonly known.

In dieting, water acts as a kind of "lubricant" for the body's metabolic functions. Water makes the body work the way it should and a sufficient intake of water will help you lose weight faster and feel better while dieting.

As a rule, we drink far too little water for a healthy diet.

And for losing weight successfully, a sufficient water intake is absolutely essential.

Without enough water, you cannot feel GOOD while dieting... and your body cannot do its job anywhere near as effectively as it should.

Adequate intake of water is the missing ingredient in dieting.


"But, I always drink when I'm thirsty..."

The body has little need for "sugar-water" or liquids with additives. It needs pure and plain water without any additives...It's quite difficult to convince anyone that he or she drinks too little water.

That's because we've grown to believe that a body will ASK for water when it needs it. This "asking" is done by the sensation of thirst.

So, when you need water, you will feel thirsty, right? And, if not thirsty, you have drunk enough water, right?

Well... yes and no.

See — the body regulates the sensation of thirst based on what it thinks is "normal" in terms of water it is allowed.

Thus, when the body gets too little water for a while, it starts to SAVE water. First, it tries to get MORE water by the sensation of thirst.

But if that doesn't work, the body "rearranges" its priorities and "assigns new orders" to various organs and functions so that it can get by with the lesser amount of water that it now receives.

For instance, the liver will take on some of the functions which the kidneys would otherwise perform but cannot now that the water intake is too low. Also, the body starts to RETAIN water, trying its best to keep all the water it can.

And it doesn't take long for the body to adopt to a lower-than-needed level of water intake. It can do it within a DAY OR TWO of too little water.

Additionally, there are nutritional substances that can FOOL the body into thinking it needs less water.

Additives and preservatives can do this. Various parts of our nutrition (such as sugar and salt) can also lower the body's natural thirst and lead to a reduced water intake with the said results.

Thirst is a reliable indicator of how much water your body needs ONLY when the body's water intake is BALANCED.

To "trust your thirst" to show how much water you need you first have to reach the level where the body HAS enough water.

And it has to be WATER, not just any liquid that contains water.


Beverages confuse the body's water balance

Coffee can make your body retain more water...Many dieting systems consider soft drinks, alcohol and beverages such as coffee and tea as "the same thing as water."

They're not. The body needs PURE and plain water taken "straight" without any additives. That's what it needs.

The body reacts differently when we drink liquids which contain other stuff in addition to water.

Only few decades ago, we used to know the importance of water. But with the onslaught of carbonated sugar water added with some food coloring — also known as soda or soft drink — and other temptations to our taste buds, we've forgotten water.

The body's NEED for plain water hasn't changed.

But the HUGE increase of sugar and additives in our intake of liquids has definitely fooled the body's natural balance of water.

The body doesn't recognize "sugar water" (fruit juices, lemonades, soda, soft drinks, etc.) as plain water. The same applies to artificial sweeteners used in "diet drinks" and caffeine in coffee.

Instead, the body reacts to the additives and measures when it's had enough SUGAR or caffeine.

Therefore, the feeling of "having drunk enough" is reached much faster when drinking soft drinks as opposed to plain water. Reacting to those additives, the body says "enough" well before your true need of WATER is satisfied.

By drinking fluids that contain sugar or other additives (such as caffeine in coffee) we "fool" our bodies to go continuously with a deficiency of water.

As a result, the body CONSERVES and RETAINS water. This translates into less well-being and an additional 5-10 POUNDS (2.5-5 kilos) of EXTRA WEIGHT.

Weight loss businesses know this insider secret. And it's easy enough for you to see for yourself whether or not it is true...


How to "lose" 5-10 lbs. of weight in a couple of days

Replace "miracle diets" with 8 glasses of water and you'll lose 5-10 lbs. in 3-5 days!Many weight loss systems are based on "magic" substances that are supposed to make you lose weight without any hardships or learning the basics of nutrition.

As "proof" they all offer some type of trial in which you can lose 5-10 lbs. within 3-5 days.

But the insider secret, of course, is NOT the "magic potion" that you pay for... but simply the WATER that goes with it.

See. If you drink eight glasses of water (and add one glass for every 20 pounds of overweight you have) a day — divided more or less evenly throughout the day — your body will GIVE UP those 5-10 lbs. of water it currently RETAINS.

The body will do so within 2-3 days of SUFFICIENT water intake simply because it now senses there's ENOUGH water coming in and, thus, it doesn't have to conserve and retain water any longer.

A sufficient water intake IS the effective ingredient in losing 5-10 lbs. of weight in less than a week.

Of course, you're not losing 5-10 lbs. of FAT by any means but excess water retained by the body due to an insufficient intake of plain water.

One pound of fat equals about 4,000 calories. To lose 10 lbs. of body fat equals using up almost 41,000 calories of energy. Putting it in terms of jogging, it is about 68 hours of running... and no one can lose that much weight in a week and stay healthy.

Water is our subject in this article and successful weight loss is discussed in other articles on this web site, but let me just assure you that you CAN lose weight successfully... but it requires some knowledge on nutrition and dieting.

Maintaining life functions (body heat, heart, breathing, blood circulation, metabolism, etc.) is the basic energy consumption we have to work with.

There are no "magic tricks" to it other than knowing how to eat a healthy diet that makes you feel BETTER than previously WHILE keeping your intake of calories BELOW what your body uses daily for maintaining itself.

To lose body fat you must know how to eat right. Gaining weight takes months and years of time and while slimming down won't take nearly as long, it cannot happen within a few days or weeks.

The only "trick" to losing weight is knowledge of what your body needs to feel BETTER when losing weight than when you ate more than the body could consume. With that you can maintain a healthy, delicious diet that'll get you down to your ideal weight.

Depending on how much overweight you have it can take from a few weeks to a few months.

With such knowledge and diet, the weight loss will be permanent and you'll never have to diet again.

And a sufficient intake of plain water is part of that healthy diet. Water is essential to life. Enough water.

The human body requires quite a lot more water than what is commonly known and most people drink too little water daily.

And this is especially true about overweight people. The minimum is eight glasses of water daily, added with another glass for every 20 pounds of overweight.

Try it and you'll see.

The first couple of days you won't be thirsty and drinking all that water can be quite an undertaking. You'll need to go to the bathroom quite often. But if you persist through that "wall of water" you'll see how much better you'll feel after the body has balanced its water intake.

A little tip: If you stay away from sugar as much as possible, it will be much easier and, once you've reached the balance with water, it will also clearly reduce your appetite.

So, drink more water!